Personal trainers who know all about Pilates and how to program it for their clients’ fitness goals are wise to add this skill to their…
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Senior Stretching Skills
Gender, age, and lifestyle can adversely impact client ranges of motion, flexibility, and/or safe biomechanics. Poor pandemic postures may, unfortunately, add to chronic issues which…
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Conquering Fear of Personal Success: Confronting Self-Sabotage
When we suffer from a fear of success, we often self-sabotage, turning away from the very actions that can propel us forward. By understanding the…
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What is Stick Mobility?
One of the best decisions that I have made as a personal trainer was to allow myself to evolve professionally and offer clients both great…
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Leaky Gut Syndrome: Ailment Without Answers
Imagine trying to identify an “illness” about which medical schools never teach. Leaky gut syndrome falls into such a category and as of late, has…
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Themed Training Sessions
Themed training sessions provide a refreshing way to manage training sessions. Essentially, leg day is a theme, but this is totally different approach. It changes…
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Weighing in on the Scale Debate
Weight loss clients that are weighing themselves on the scale frequently may not only create unnecessary anguish, but will also not receive the full and…
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Considerations for Working with Clients Affected by Obesity
As personal trainers, we are called to serve a variety of clients, including and most often, clients affected by overweight and obesity. As part of…
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Chew on This: Why Mastication is Important for Fitness Clients
For most people, the topic of mastication is about as sexy as watching Phoenix grass grow in the summer! But there may be more relevance…
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How to Do Stiff-Legged Deadlifts
Stiff-legged deadlifts, aka straight-leg deadlifts, are a variation of a conventional deadlift in which far less knee flexion is used to pull the weight from…
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How to Do a Romanian Deadlift
A Romanian deadlift (RDL) is a variation of a conventional deadlift in which the weight is not set back down on the ground, thereby placing…
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Tips for Training the Weekend Warrior
Not every client has the time and flexibility to train five days a week like the lifestyle of most fitpros might allow. The “weekend warrior”,…
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